The research group runs a programme of activities as part of an exciting research environment for students and staff. UpcomingTBAPast Jun 27 2022 16.00 - 18.00 Culture against Fascism? Can cultural forms, practices, discourses, interventions – including in the art field – contribute to resistance against the fascist tendency of today? What are the causes and what is constitutive of the fascist tendency in politics, social life, and even culture as such? How can cultural resistance avoid aestheticisation? These are some of the questions that inform this online event which will draw on the work of Ewa Majewska, author of Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common (Verso 2021) and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of Late Capitalist Fascism (Polity 2021). Further information Apr 20 2020 00.00 - May 01 2021 23.59 The Global Staffroom The Global Staffroom is a live podcast hosted by Manual Labours (Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope) involving conversations and interviews with people about what it feels like to care, be cared for, not be able to care at work. https://www.twitch.tv/theglobalstaffroom Further information Nov 25 2019 16.00 - 18.00 Art, Philosophy and Theory Reading Group on Time How do we understand the ‘past’ and the ‘future’? Early Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt on time, philosophy and political action Further information Jun 02 2019 10.00 - Jun 05 2019 17.30 REPRODUCTION Join Collective for REPRODUCTION, a summer school exploring ‘social reproduction’ Further information Nov 23 2018 13.00 - 14.30 The Life of Water Screening and Discussion of Margaret Tait, Orquil Burn (1955) Further information Nov 19 2018 18.30 - 20.00 BOOK LAUNCH: David Hopkins: After Modern Art 1945–2017 Hopkins will be in conversation with Fiona Bradley to launch an updated edition of his guide to art since 1945 published by Oxford University Press. Map Further information Nov 19 2018 17.00 - 18.00 Klara Kemp-Welch: Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe, 1965-1981 An event celebrating the launch of a new book by Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art) Further information Nov 15 2018 17.15 - 18.00 History of Art Research Seminar: Dr Tamara Trodd ‘WELCOME! Elizabeth Price and the Life of Objects’ Dr Tamara Trodd will be delivering a paper on contemporary artist Elizabeth Price Further information Nov 09 2018 18.00 - 21.00 Man Down Dance Film Screening and Discussion Panel Further information Oct 24 2018 14.30 - 18.00 Strange Foreign Bodies Dr Tamara Trodd will lead a trip to Glasgow to visit Strange Foreign Bodies at the Hunterian Museum. Further information Aug 24 2018 14.00 - 18.00 Artists in the Gig Economy A workshop on art and the gig economy. Map Further information Jun 11 2018 00.00 - 00.00 Art & Violence Now Art & Violence Now examines manifestations, enactments and representations of violence in contemporary art against a global political and cultural backdrop in which terrorism, extremism, intolerance, sexual and other forms of violence appear endemic and inescapable. Map Further information Feb 28 2018 15.00 - 18.00 EVENT POSTPONED - What is a Diagram? THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION. A NEW DATE WILL BE ADVERTISED SHORTLY. This symposium presents new and in-progress research around the subject of the diagram, particularly in relation to the writings of Gilles Deleuze, from researchers from across Edinburgh College of Art and from the University of St Andrews. Find out more about the symposium location Further information Feb 14 2018 14.30 - 16.30 LUX Scotland and Mother Tongue present AfroScots AfroScots is a screening programme of film, video and sound encompassing the work of Black artists, who have – in the present and historically – lived, worked or studied in Scotland. Find out more about the screening location Further information Feb 09 2018 11.30 - 13.00 Un/Learning Economies Friday Talk As part of Edinburgh College of Art’s Friday Lecture Series, the artist, writer and educator Annette Krauss will give a public lecture on her practice and collaborative research. Find out more about the lecture location Further information Feb 08 2018 13.00 - 17.00 Un/Learning Economies Closed Workshop A workshop with the artist, writer and educator Annette Krauss focussing on learning economies and the potential of practices of unlearning. Find out more about the lecture location Further information Jan 22 2018 15.30 - 17.00 'Vertigo Sea' Tour and Conversation A tour of Talbot Rice Gallery's most recent exhibition, John Akomfrah's 'Vertigo Sea', with introduction by the exhibition's curator James Clegg and a conversation led by Prof Andrew Patrizio. Find out more about the tour location Further information Nov 30 2017 19.00 - 20.30 Art History in the Age of Global Trump Politics This round-table will discuss how the political impulses having so far animated the discipline of art history are challenged in this new terrain of ideological confusion as capitalism is becoming disassociated from democracy. Find out more about the lecture location Further information Nov 28 2017 00.00 - 00.00 Problems of Art and Time A Synchronology: The Contemporary and Other Times Further information Oct 25 2017 18.00 - 20.00 The Social Reproduction of Feminist Art History A discussion and debate marking the launch of two publications: Feminism and Art History Now and a special issue of Third Text focusing on 'Social Reproduction and Art'. Find out more about the lecture location Further information Jul 10 2017 17.15 - 18.30 Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide This lecture shows the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure. Find out more about the lecture location Further information This article was published on 2025-01-21
Jun 27 2022 16.00 - 18.00 Culture against Fascism? Can cultural forms, practices, discourses, interventions – including in the art field – contribute to resistance against the fascist tendency of today? What are the causes and what is constitutive of the fascist tendency in politics, social life, and even culture as such? How can cultural resistance avoid aestheticisation? These are some of the questions that inform this online event which will draw on the work of Ewa Majewska, author of Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common (Verso 2021) and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of Late Capitalist Fascism (Polity 2021). Further information
Jun 27 2022 16.00 - 18.00 Culture against Fascism? Can cultural forms, practices, discourses, interventions – including in the art field – contribute to resistance against the fascist tendency of today? What are the causes and what is constitutive of the fascist tendency in politics, social life, and even culture as such? How can cultural resistance avoid aestheticisation? These are some of the questions that inform this online event which will draw on the work of Ewa Majewska, author of Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common (Verso 2021) and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of Late Capitalist Fascism (Polity 2021). Further information
Apr 20 2020 00.00 - May 01 2021 23.59 The Global Staffroom The Global Staffroom is a live podcast hosted by Manual Labours (Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope) involving conversations and interviews with people about what it feels like to care, be cared for, not be able to care at work. https://www.twitch.tv/theglobalstaffroom Further information
Apr 20 2020 00.00 - May 01 2021 23.59 The Global Staffroom The Global Staffroom is a live podcast hosted by Manual Labours (Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope) involving conversations and interviews with people about what it feels like to care, be cared for, not be able to care at work. https://www.twitch.tv/theglobalstaffroom Further information
Nov 25 2019 16.00 - 18.00 Art, Philosophy and Theory Reading Group on Time How do we understand the ‘past’ and the ‘future’? Early Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt on time, philosophy and political action Further information
Nov 25 2019 16.00 - 18.00 Art, Philosophy and Theory Reading Group on Time How do we understand the ‘past’ and the ‘future’? Early Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt on time, philosophy and political action Further information
Jun 02 2019 10.00 - Jun 05 2019 17.30 REPRODUCTION Join Collective for REPRODUCTION, a summer school exploring ‘social reproduction’ Further information
Jun 02 2019 10.00 - Jun 05 2019 17.30 REPRODUCTION Join Collective for REPRODUCTION, a summer school exploring ‘social reproduction’ Further information
Nov 23 2018 13.00 - 14.30 The Life of Water Screening and Discussion of Margaret Tait, Orquil Burn (1955) Further information
Nov 23 2018 13.00 - 14.30 The Life of Water Screening and Discussion of Margaret Tait, Orquil Burn (1955) Further information
Nov 19 2018 18.30 - 20.00 BOOK LAUNCH: David Hopkins: After Modern Art 1945–2017 Hopkins will be in conversation with Fiona Bradley to launch an updated edition of his guide to art since 1945 published by Oxford University Press. Map Further information
Nov 19 2018 18.30 - 20.00 BOOK LAUNCH: David Hopkins: After Modern Art 1945–2017 Hopkins will be in conversation with Fiona Bradley to launch an updated edition of his guide to art since 1945 published by Oxford University Press. Map Further information
Nov 19 2018 17.00 - 18.00 Klara Kemp-Welch: Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe, 1965-1981 An event celebrating the launch of a new book by Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art) Further information
Nov 19 2018 17.00 - 18.00 Klara Kemp-Welch: Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe, 1965-1981 An event celebrating the launch of a new book by Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art) Further information
Nov 15 2018 17.15 - 18.00 History of Art Research Seminar: Dr Tamara Trodd ‘WELCOME! Elizabeth Price and the Life of Objects’ Dr Tamara Trodd will be delivering a paper on contemporary artist Elizabeth Price Further information
Nov 15 2018 17.15 - 18.00 History of Art Research Seminar: Dr Tamara Trodd ‘WELCOME! Elizabeth Price and the Life of Objects’ Dr Tamara Trodd will be delivering a paper on contemporary artist Elizabeth Price Further information
Oct 24 2018 14.30 - 18.00 Strange Foreign Bodies Dr Tamara Trodd will lead a trip to Glasgow to visit Strange Foreign Bodies at the Hunterian Museum. Further information
Oct 24 2018 14.30 - 18.00 Strange Foreign Bodies Dr Tamara Trodd will lead a trip to Glasgow to visit Strange Foreign Bodies at the Hunterian Museum. Further information
Aug 24 2018 14.00 - 18.00 Artists in the Gig Economy A workshop on art and the gig economy. Map Further information
Aug 24 2018 14.00 - 18.00 Artists in the Gig Economy A workshop on art and the gig economy. Map Further information
Jun 11 2018 00.00 - 00.00 Art & Violence Now Art & Violence Now examines manifestations, enactments and representations of violence in contemporary art against a global political and cultural backdrop in which terrorism, extremism, intolerance, sexual and other forms of violence appear endemic and inescapable. Map Further information
Jun 11 2018 00.00 - 00.00 Art & Violence Now Art & Violence Now examines manifestations, enactments and representations of violence in contemporary art against a global political and cultural backdrop in which terrorism, extremism, intolerance, sexual and other forms of violence appear endemic and inescapable. Map Further information
Feb 28 2018 15.00 - 18.00 EVENT POSTPONED - What is a Diagram? THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION. A NEW DATE WILL BE ADVERTISED SHORTLY. This symposium presents new and in-progress research around the subject of the diagram, particularly in relation to the writings of Gilles Deleuze, from researchers from across Edinburgh College of Art and from the University of St Andrews. Find out more about the symposium location Further information
Feb 28 2018 15.00 - 18.00 EVENT POSTPONED - What is a Diagram? THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION. A NEW DATE WILL BE ADVERTISED SHORTLY. This symposium presents new and in-progress research around the subject of the diagram, particularly in relation to the writings of Gilles Deleuze, from researchers from across Edinburgh College of Art and from the University of St Andrews. Find out more about the symposium location Further information
Feb 14 2018 14.30 - 16.30 LUX Scotland and Mother Tongue present AfroScots AfroScots is a screening programme of film, video and sound encompassing the work of Black artists, who have – in the present and historically – lived, worked or studied in Scotland. Find out more about the screening location Further information
Feb 14 2018 14.30 - 16.30 LUX Scotland and Mother Tongue present AfroScots AfroScots is a screening programme of film, video and sound encompassing the work of Black artists, who have – in the present and historically – lived, worked or studied in Scotland. Find out more about the screening location Further information
Feb 09 2018 11.30 - 13.00 Un/Learning Economies Friday Talk As part of Edinburgh College of Art’s Friday Lecture Series, the artist, writer and educator Annette Krauss will give a public lecture on her practice and collaborative research. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Feb 09 2018 11.30 - 13.00 Un/Learning Economies Friday Talk As part of Edinburgh College of Art’s Friday Lecture Series, the artist, writer and educator Annette Krauss will give a public lecture on her practice and collaborative research. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Feb 08 2018 13.00 - 17.00 Un/Learning Economies Closed Workshop A workshop with the artist, writer and educator Annette Krauss focussing on learning economies and the potential of practices of unlearning. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Feb 08 2018 13.00 - 17.00 Un/Learning Economies Closed Workshop A workshop with the artist, writer and educator Annette Krauss focussing on learning economies and the potential of practices of unlearning. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Jan 22 2018 15.30 - 17.00 'Vertigo Sea' Tour and Conversation A tour of Talbot Rice Gallery's most recent exhibition, John Akomfrah's 'Vertigo Sea', with introduction by the exhibition's curator James Clegg and a conversation led by Prof Andrew Patrizio. Find out more about the tour location Further information
Jan 22 2018 15.30 - 17.00 'Vertigo Sea' Tour and Conversation A tour of Talbot Rice Gallery's most recent exhibition, John Akomfrah's 'Vertigo Sea', with introduction by the exhibition's curator James Clegg and a conversation led by Prof Andrew Patrizio. Find out more about the tour location Further information
Nov 30 2017 19.00 - 20.30 Art History in the Age of Global Trump Politics This round-table will discuss how the political impulses having so far animated the discipline of art history are challenged in this new terrain of ideological confusion as capitalism is becoming disassociated from democracy. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Nov 30 2017 19.00 - 20.30 Art History in the Age of Global Trump Politics This round-table will discuss how the political impulses having so far animated the discipline of art history are challenged in this new terrain of ideological confusion as capitalism is becoming disassociated from democracy. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Nov 28 2017 00.00 - 00.00 Problems of Art and Time A Synchronology: The Contemporary and Other Times Further information
Nov 28 2017 00.00 - 00.00 Problems of Art and Time A Synchronology: The Contemporary and Other Times Further information
Oct 25 2017 18.00 - 20.00 The Social Reproduction of Feminist Art History A discussion and debate marking the launch of two publications: Feminism and Art History Now and a special issue of Third Text focusing on 'Social Reproduction and Art'. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Oct 25 2017 18.00 - 20.00 The Social Reproduction of Feminist Art History A discussion and debate marking the launch of two publications: Feminism and Art History Now and a special issue of Third Text focusing on 'Social Reproduction and Art'. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Jul 10 2017 17.15 - 18.30 Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide This lecture shows the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure. Find out more about the lecture location Further information
Jul 10 2017 17.15 - 18.30 Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide This lecture shows the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure. Find out more about the lecture location Further information